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NEW DELHI: India today assured Japan to augment its port infrastructure, particularly at Ennore and Chennai to facilitate import of automobile components and cars from Japan and at the same time, evinced interest in seeking assistance for its port projects. The development comes in the wake of Shipping Minister G K Vasan leading a delegation to Japan, which met Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan, Akihiro Ohta. "Vasan discussed several issues relating to logistics, infrastructure and development of port sector in India. He explained the developments that were taking place in India in the ports sector and assured...

India and Japan on Thursday called for an early inking of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement, even as Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi admitted that Tokyo has “several outstanding issues” to be resolved in its negotiations on the proposed deal with New Delhi. “There are several outstanding issues that we have... We will have these issues discussed in the working groups so that we can accelerate the efforts (for the nuke deal),” said Motegi, about a week after Tokyo and New Delhi resumed negotiation on the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement. He was talking to mediapersons...